Thankyou so much dude! I've been banging my head against this for weeks trying to set this up in Azure. Pretty much everything in here works over on Azure so I'll keep testing with some projects and see how I get on!
I literally just thought of doing this today and I see you've thought of it two years ago! The computing and networking tools available these days allow you to set up a system that could coordinate custom designed advanced-level collaborative workflows for a few bucks a month.
It took a bit but it does work! Especially when you replicate source footage. another option is hosting an open on server internally and routing it through your firewall…
Packed full of useful information in such a short video. Astounding! Thank you! I will likely never use this, but wow it is great to know it is possible. Thanks again for doing these awesome videos!
This is excellent! I guess you could use this to collaborate with other programs like affinity photo or other programs. Nice work. When payday comes i am sending you a coffee for this one.
You just saved my week!! I am going to use this so often, that is just amazing! Your tutorial is just incredible! Just one question: I don't get how to have a shared database ... :/ what I mean is how to have all your media files available for everybody
Sure, what I would do...sign up for google drive or one drive or something ...dropbox...your gold source gets uploaded to the drop. Every editor maps to the drive and has automated replication turned on. This means when the gold source gets uploaded, every editor has a copy replicated down to their computer. To note, helps a lot if you keep the same folder structure on each of the machines. c:\Videos\ProjectName\A Cam\ works....this way the project files refer to the source footage on everyone's computer. make sense?
One more awesome tutorial, John ! Thank you ! As for the trusted sites, you could use wild card characters the first time you are adding it to the trusted sites list. That will take care of any combinations of the same site. [Example : *blackmagicdesign* add * before and after]
Hi, this was great I’ve been using it since the end of November working with my friend in the next town, both on PCs. I’ve just tried to connect to the online database with a new Mac and it won’t let me connect says “Connection Error: Failed to connect to the database server as the connection was refused. Please ensure that the database reverts is configured to allow connections from this device.” I’m lost as to why as the IP address is the same as my pc and that connects. Any ideas where it’s gone wrong?
This was so usefull!! Thanks for doing such a in depth guide. Got it working with Davinci 17. One thing that i had to add, if you want to have the media in different locations on PC A you can add on PC B where the media is allocated on Media Storage under preferences and add on Mapped Mount the path of the source files on PC A so they will link even being in different paths Had the problem because we share on PC and MAC and the root path of each OS are different
@@johnsfilmsllc I'm actually testing it with the free tiers. I'm now trying to find out how to get an estimate on how much would it cost on a monthly basis, but can't find a way to do so. Any way you can imagine to roughly calculate it?
@@lewkmiller You mean how to share the base footage between the different editors? If they are all the same OS (windows or all Mac then try using google drive or onedrive or any other cloud service that replicates the cloud to a user’s local drive. Put the footage on the cloud and set up each machine to keep a local copy in the exact same file location on each computer.
Wow I got it working! So after 30 days for free how much does Amazon charge you? I'm going to test this out with my team and see how it goes. Pretty smooth for me so far.
@@johnsfilmsllc Thanks I looked into it, it's about $40/month. I think for that price some sort of basic home server would be better and give much more flexibility. But this AWS is a good option to use with my team right now and see if that's something we want to invest in. It also looks like it's free for a whole year. So that's great
Awesome. I've noticed Blackmagic has before not recommended to use collaboration over the internet. Only over LAN. This is likely due to delay as every every interation you do in resolve is live saved to the database in collaboration mode. Do you have any experience with delay or workflow issues doing this over AWS in stead of over LAN?
@@johnsfilmsllc Right, so hypothetically if one had a beefier AWS instance it would go more smoothly, or is it the network delay as its going over the internet, not over LAN as it is designed for, making things slow. If you have to pay for it you might as well run it on your own machine and make your coworker at a different location connect you your machine over the internet through a VPN or similar. no?
@@HakonBroderLund Actually yes - that would be preferred but many people (including youtubers themselves) asked me for this solution because they didn't want to host a vpn connection and fiddle with all the config.
@@HakonBroderLund Personally, I think there is a lot of value in using AWS since all the heavy lifting is done within AWS. Yes this will cost some money but there is a convenience in having this hosted service off prem.
I noted that you didn't need to use a DVinci license key on the amazon cloud. Is this true? Could you use a beefier remote server on Amazon to do remote rendering?
There are a few thing, Your local IP address would be changing randomly by your ISP. So you might need to get static IP. Also, for the firewall rule, it would be better to have it open to specific IP addresses ( more secure).
That is truly a video not to be found anywhere else, very interesting! I cringed a little when you turned off the firewall entirely instead of doing port forwarding, but since Amazon has a separate firewall in front of it it‘s probably fine 😅 I’m sure it’s all sandboxed anyway and the VMs don’t see anyone in their local network? By the way, remember that I asked you about the RX580 in a Hackintosh with Resolve free a while back? I have built the machine now and tested it: i9900K + RX580 + Resolve free can handle Braw 4K and scrubs smoothly, doesn‘t drop frames during playback after grading and stabilising. Same goes for Sony A7c footage, doesn’t drop frames, scrubbing is a tad less smooth, but it’s hardly even noticeable. Export times are at around 60-75% real time. It seems like the RX 580 is the perfect budget card for the BMPCC4K which I‘ll be getting once my wallet recovers 😂 Very happy with my new machine now, it runs a lot cooler than a real Mac, still has 32bit support, can handle 4K editing just fine and cost me a lot less than a comparable spec iMac. Thanks again for your pointers regarding the RX 580 + free vs Studio question, they helped reassure me. I was a bit worried that I might regret not going for the RX 5700. The RX580 is definitely enough for now though! Your videos are such a good resource to have, thank you for making them!
Wow thanks for the feedback and the follow up! I remember because hackentosh is a risky land to predict performance in but I'm thrilled to hear it works that well! Thanks for watching - let me know if I can research anything fun for you
@@johnsfilmsllc comparing Mac and PC performance is really difficult, because a lot of the Mac designs have bad thermals, but the OS is slightly more efficient for certain things too! I get 100 points more in Cinebench in Mac OS than in Windows on the same machine, but mine is a Hackintosh, so it‘s not thermal throttling anything! Maybe it‘s something worth exploring for you if you still have an AMD card lying around? Ryzentosh is definitely a thing and it‘s easier to pull off than I expected! Not quite as smooth and fully compatible as Intel, but I‘m sure Resolve would run! I don‘t think anyone has done a video with proper benchmark comparisons of Mac OS vs Windows vs Linux for Resolve on the exact same machine yet, would be super interesting to see how it would compare with your regular benchmarks.
Hi, I find your video really rich in details, but when I installed Davinci Resolve, it didn't open because there was no GPU available. In other video I discoverd that instance t2.micro doesn't have a GPU. Can you help me on that? I'am having a hard time with Davinci and I was trying a solution.
t2.micro I don't launch resolve in, instead I'm launching the Resolve Project Server which is nothing more than a frontend to postgresql. What hardware are you working with?
@@johnsfilmsllc I'm working with a notebook asus S550CA i5 1,7GHz 2 cores 4 precessors. I can also say that in 14:29 in the video, in the security tab, there is "launch -wizard-6" and when I was doing it, I only found "launch-wizard-1". That was basically the only diferrence I found while following your tutorial.
Hi John. Have you actually gotten collaboration working across the net or just hosting a database? We would love to use this but have the true power of resolve collaboration working. Another question is that when using this method it is only like 50% of the time it works. Some computers connect and some don't. then we flip it or set up another instance and then computers that didn't connect before now connect and vice versa. Is this something you have come across?
With the Amazon setup I put it together as a proof of concept but haven’t run production work on it. With an OpenVPN hosted network I have set it up for a client and they are running it for collaboration with remote workers
@@johnsfilmsllc thanks! We have worked out the inconsitencies in the connecting by sending the resovle key. Not sure why it is different as it seems more like an auto fill but works more often. We will look into the VPN. Cheers! Thanks for making these videos.
Thanks for the great setup info! You saved me a lot of work! This setup works for me when I open the project from one computer. However, if I try to open the project from two computers, using collaboration mode, I get an error: "Please ensure that the machines are not connected using a VPN and that DaVinci Resolve is not being blocked by another system firewall." The problem is not specific to a particular computer - both computers can, separately - open the project. However, whichever computer tries to open the project when it's already open on the other computer gets the error. The thought the problem might be because both computers are on the same home network so perhaps Postgres running on the AWS server isn't able to distinguish between the two of them, since they both have the same egress IP address. I tried to test this by connecting one of the computers to a VPN, so that both computers would have a separate egress addresses but it didn't help. If I use a DB on my local network, everything works fine. Any ideas?
Interesting, thats a new message, when I built this I think it was Davinci Resolve 16? I know they updated the way the project server works due to Covid.
This information is golden. I wish there was official documentation on these things. Has there been any updates to this process since the release of 17?
@@johnsfilmsllc thanks for your reply. sure you're right. but what I meant was can I use a Mac as virtual machine because I get stuck at the point when I try to open up the ".rdp" file on my Mac
It is an open source database the Resolve Project server uses to store data. The Project server uses it directly, editors don’t need to install Postgres themselves, just use the resolve UI to connect to the project server and you are good
I haven't run long term, instead did this as a proof of concept. The bandwidth on these machines was low, I'd suggest looking at that as the primary indicator of capability considering the editing is still done on your local machine.
Hi john , I think my future PC will include the AMD GPU and CPU 6800XT and 5900 Ryzen ..But I have to say the new Apple Silicon Arm new processor looks really attractive in term of performances. What do you think about it ???
I still haven't gotten to dive into the chips, I want to see some 3rd party benches to understand...it's going to be very hard to benchmark apples to apples going forward.
Hi John, Thank you for your helpful video. I am wondering instead of opening port up to another user, would it be easier/ safer to work under a VPN network? I have got everything working, except when two users trying to access the same project, one of them will be disconnected. Many thanks, Peter
@@johnsfilmsllc Hey John, my friends and I managed to set up a local database and shared over the internet through VPN without any port forwarding. And it's working really well!
@@peterliuproduction nice man, I would love to do the same, I need to set up a shared project with an assistant editor in another city, do you know where I can find a tuto to set it up with a VPN?
@@benwaraiotoko Hey Ben, you can find the VPN that we used here:www.zerotier.com/ it's fairly straightforward to set up, a very light weight software. It will require both PC to have the footage in the same file paths.
Hi john. Nice video. I am waiting for all the upgrades going on with Nvidia and AMD ( GPU and CPU) right now . So hopefully January should be a good time to get my new PC.And i will ask you for recommendation if its okay with you .. Budget of 2 or 3 K.
Hey John do you think it is possible to use the Amazon cloud with some higher specs as a solution to edit your videos wiht resolve enitierly in the cloud like some people are already doing with shadow.tech? If it is possible maybe do a video about it with some benchmarkts. I think it is really interessitng for some people who don't want to spend too much for a decent workstation to know if this would be a possible alternative. :)
You can choose what you are willing to pay for on the amazon cloud relative to the hardware...the free tier I showed here would be PAINFULLY long to render...think 3 min video in 20-30 mins maybe? Just guessing but it would be BAD.
@@johnsfilmsllc Indeed it is too long. But if we go with paid and choose heavy machine then it would take around 3 min to render 3min Video... I guess🙄 (if its true then Davinci+AWS going to bang)
@@91coders Yes I think it can happen but at the same time, get a studio license and you can leverage the hardware encoder found on even 6 year old GPU's to create quickly) (assuming you don't have heavy fusion work :))
I’d suggest going with a paid host that has a fatter internet pipe for the frequent project updates that happen, that said I was surprised it even worked - maybe try the free one and see how it is?
This is great stuff and possible to replicate the setup. At this time, however, Blackmagic has presented an easier solution. Thanks for sharing this, either way!
I haven't used it, though I have looked at it. I've talked about it with Billy Rybka (another resolve youtuber) quite a bit. He uses it with his production company to communicate with his editors and really likes it.
The challenge you are going to run into (and probably did) is the location of the media files that are stored on the machine. You will argue back and forth, saving the settings over and over...Sadly I don't have a fix...
hey! we would need some help with this setup, wanting to basically be able to "rough cut" in studio A, and, "edit" in studio B, then, color correct in studio C all arround the planet, working on ONE project. how can we get in touch? thx!
I got my discord 2FA messed up and can’t get into it at this point. I did some searching and Text/Text+ isn’t going to be a good topic for a video as it doesn’t draw much search volume ;(
Hi ! A big thank's for this tuto. I have a probleme when I try to modify the timeline. I have this message : "The project could not be loaded in collaboration mode as Resolve was unable to establish a connection to communicate with other users. Please ensure that the machines are not connected using a VPN and that Davinci Resolve is not being blocked by the system firewall." I don't know what to do :/
Thats new - it used to work without direct connections to other users for basic project collab. The communication/chat features required a direct connection which was beyond the scope of the video. If you have the ability to setup a vpn and connect to it try that. i just set up another youtuber with his own film company and it works like a champ. Look at open vpn server (and some consumer routers even run it)
Of course it's working but TOTALY UNSECURED ! If it can be used for testing purposes, I highly recommend to never use this configuration in a production environment. Please consider to change PostgreSQL user name and password, avoid using a x.x.x.x/0 listening address and never open port 5432/tcp for ANY public address from Internet using the 0.0.0.0/0 source IP. You can avoid this critical vulnerability by using a VPN between your computer and the server. Then in the firewall rules you only allows port 5432/tcp throw the VPN tunnel.
@@johnsfilmsllc @Tanner Fugal if the internet goes down you could access the instance using your phones mobile data and export the project required? Then reimport the new work back into the original project when the internet returns. One could also run an automatic SQL backup program on the instance to constantly backup to an FTP? Does that tick enough boxes to make it safe?
How the heck did you figure this out man??🙄
Hahaha little by little :)
Thankyou so much dude! I've been banging my head against this for weeks trying to set this up in Azure. Pretty much everything in here works over on Azure so I'll keep testing with some projects and see how I get on!
Awesome very cool!
I literally just thought of doing this today and I see you've thought of it two years ago! The computing and networking tools available these days allow you to set up a system that could coordinate custom designed advanced-level collaborative workflows for a few bucks a month.
It took a bit but it does work! Especially when you replicate source footage. another option is hosting an open on server internally and routing it through your firewall…
Wow, John. Thank you! You really are the only one I've found to answer this much needed setup.
Awesome! Glad it helped!
Packed full of useful information in such a short video. Astounding! Thank you! I will likely never use this, but wow it is great to know it is possible. Thanks again for doing these awesome videos!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching!
This is excellent! I guess you could use this to collaborate with other programs like affinity photo or other programs. Nice work. When payday comes i am sending you a coffee for this one.
Thanks! I think so...this could be a very useful pattern to follow
John - Have you tried to provision a workstation w/ more CPU/GPU power to speed up rendering time ?
Please can you also make a video on Adobe premiere pro .How to install on AWS
You just saved my week!! I am going to use this so often, that is just amazing! Your tutorial is just incredible! Just one question: I don't get how to have a shared database ... :/ what I mean is how to have all your media files available for everybody
Sure, what I would do...sign up for google drive or one drive or something ...dropbox...your gold source gets uploaded to the drop. Every editor maps to the drive and has automated replication turned on. This means when the gold source gets uploaded, every editor has a copy replicated down to their computer. To note, helps a lot if you keep the same folder structure on each of the machines. c:\Videos\ProjectName\A Cam\ works....this way the project files refer to the source footage on everyone's computer. make sense?
One more awesome tutorial, John ! Thank you ! As for the trusted sites, you could use wild card characters the first time you are adding it to the trusted sites list. That will take care of any combinations of the same site. [Example : *blackmagicdesign* add * before and after]
What’s weird is I tried that and it kept coming back (even with the wildcards)
really unique, never thought this existed
Thanks for watching!
Hi, this was great I’ve been using it since the end of November working with my friend in the next town, both on PCs. I’ve just tried to connect to the online database with a new Mac and it won’t let me connect says “Connection Error: Failed to connect to the database server as the connection was refused. Please ensure that the database reverts is configured to allow connections from this device.” I’m lost as to why as the IP address is the same as my pc and that connects. Any ideas where it’s gone wrong?
Stike that, i was being a plonker and trying to set up a new database rather than connect. All working once again.
This was so usefull!! Thanks for doing such a in depth guide.
Got it working with Davinci 17. One thing that i had to add, if you want to have the media in different locations on PC A you can add on PC B where the media is allocated on Media Storage under preferences and add on Mapped Mount the path of the source files on PC A so they will link even being in different paths
Had the problem because we share on PC and MAC and the root path of each OS are different
Thats GENIUS. I'm sad I didn't think of it - Fantastic - thank you for sharing!
What hardware did you choose on EC2 and how is performance?
@@johnsfilmsllc I'm actually testing it with the free tiers. I'm now trying to find out how to get an estimate on how much would it cost on a monthly basis, but can't find a way to do so. Any way you can imagine to roughly calculate it?
I have my project server running on a tierzero setup. I am interested in more infos on how to set up this mapped path. can you share more?
@@lewkmiller You mean how to share the base footage between the different editors? If they are all the same OS (windows or all Mac then try using google drive or onedrive or any other cloud service that replicates the cloud to a user’s local drive. Put the footage on the cloud and set up each machine to keep a local copy in the exact same file location on each computer.
Works perfectly on my PC! Thank you for explaining u got my SUB!
Glad I could help and nice job sticking with it!
@@johnsfilmsllc @update it's normal that project on SQL makings lags during editing etc. ?
Wow I got it working! So after 30 days for free how much does Amazon charge you? I'm going to test this out with my team and see how it goes. Pretty smooth for me so far.
Awesome - I have no clue on that one - would have to check the rates on the amazon servers. [
@@johnsfilmsllc Thanks I looked into it, it's about $40/month. I think for that price some sort of basic home server would be better and give much more flexibility. But this AWS is a good option to use with my team right now and see if that's something we want to invest in. It also looks like it's free for a whole year. So that's great
Hey John! is it possible to share the Davinci Database without using AWS? We have a QNAP NAS for media storage and Database storage.
Hi, yes for sure. I host my own resolve server here in my studio. It's much less complicated...th-cam.com/video/gX5eEQw1E1M/w-d-xo.html
Awesome. I've noticed Blackmagic has before not recommended to use collaboration over the internet. Only over LAN. This is likely due to delay as every every interation you do in resolve is live saved to the database in collaboration mode. Do you have any experience with delay or workflow issues doing this over AWS in stead of over LAN?
I only ran it on the potato...only noticed challenges when it was actively saving (I have live save turn on every 10 mins)
@@johnsfilmsllc Right, so hypothetically if one had a beefier AWS instance it would go more smoothly, or is it the network delay as its going over the internet, not over LAN as it is designed for, making things slow. If you have to pay for it you might as well run it on your own machine and make your coworker at a different location connect you your machine over the internet through a VPN or similar. no?
@@HakonBroderLund Actually yes - that would be preferred but many people (including youtubers themselves) asked me for this solution because they didn't want to host a vpn connection and fiddle with all the config.
@@HakonBroderLund Personally, I think there is a lot of value in using AWS since all the heavy lifting is done within AWS. Yes this will cost some money but there is a convenience in having this hosted service off prem.
I noted that you didn't need to use a DVinci license key on the amazon cloud. Is this true? Could you use a beefier remote server on Amazon to do remote rendering?
Good question. I believe to run the rendering you need a license.
Dis notice that once you created and collaborated the new project that wen you went to the server that the new project was not there ???
There are a few thing, Your local IP address would be changing randomly by your ISP. So you might need to get static IP. Also, for the firewall rule, it would be better to have it open to specific IP addresses ( more secure).
Agree with you on that - Amazon drops a firewall in front but you never can be too safe.
Thanks John i let you know how i make out in two weeks this will help
Oh Cool! You have an actual use for this?
That is truly a video not to be found anywhere else, very interesting! I cringed a little when you turned off the firewall entirely instead of doing port forwarding, but since Amazon has a separate firewall in front of it it‘s probably fine 😅 I’m sure it’s all sandboxed anyway and the VMs don’t see anyone in their local network?
By the way, remember that I asked you about the RX580 in a Hackintosh with Resolve free a while back? I have built the machine now and tested it: i9900K + RX580 + Resolve free can handle Braw 4K and scrubs smoothly, doesn‘t drop frames during playback after grading and stabilising. Same goes for Sony A7c footage, doesn’t drop frames, scrubbing is a tad less smooth, but it’s hardly even noticeable. Export times are at around 60-75% real time. It seems like the RX 580 is the perfect budget card for the BMPCC4K which I‘ll be getting once my wallet recovers 😂 Very happy with my new machine now, it runs a lot cooler than a real Mac, still has 32bit support, can handle 4K editing just fine and cost me a lot less than a comparable spec iMac.
Thanks again for your pointers regarding the RX 580 + free vs Studio question, they helped reassure me. I was a bit worried that I might regret not going for the RX 5700. The RX580 is definitely enough for now though! Your videos are such a good resource to have, thank you for making them!
Wow thanks for the feedback and the follow up! I remember because hackentosh is a risky land to predict performance in but I'm thrilled to hear it works that well! Thanks for watching - let me know if I can research anything fun for you
@@johnsfilmsllc comparing Mac and PC performance is really difficult, because a lot of the Mac designs have bad thermals, but the OS is slightly more efficient for certain things too! I get 100 points more in Cinebench in Mac OS than in Windows on the same machine, but mine is a Hackintosh, so it‘s not thermal throttling anything! Maybe it‘s something worth exploring for you if you still have an AMD card lying around? Ryzentosh is definitely a thing and it‘s easier to pull off than I expected! Not quite as smooth and fully compatible as Intel, but I‘m sure Resolve would run! I don‘t think anyone has done a video with proper benchmark comparisons of Mac OS vs Windows vs Linux for Resolve on the exact same machine yet, would be super interesting to see how it would compare with your regular benchmarks.
Hello John, u mean working with a buddy in Alaska only ? Man, my buddy is somewhere else. Oh boy, I wish was not limited to Alaska !
Hahhahahaha exactly...Amazon hardwires a single line straight to that guy's igloo. ;)
@@johnsfilmsllc Man, ahah, they're so cheap.
Hi, I find your video really rich in details, but when I installed Davinci Resolve, it didn't open because there was no GPU available. In other video I discoverd that instance t2.micro doesn't have a GPU. Can you help me on that? I'am having a hard time with Davinci and I was trying a solution.
t2.micro I don't launch resolve in, instead I'm launching the Resolve Project Server which is nothing more than a frontend to postgresql. What hardware are you working with?
@@johnsfilmsllc I'm working with a notebook asus S550CA i5 1,7GHz 2 cores 4 precessors. I can also say that in 14:29 in the video, in the security tab, there is "launch -wizard-6" and when I was doing it, I only found "launch-wizard-1". That was basically the only diferrence I found while following your tutorial.
Hi John. Have you actually gotten collaboration working across the net or just hosting a database? We would love to use this but have the true power of resolve collaboration working. Another question is that when using this method it is only like 50% of the time it works. Some computers connect and some don't. then we flip it or set up another instance and then computers that didn't connect before now connect and vice versa. Is this something you have come across?
With the Amazon setup I put it together as a proof of concept but haven’t run production work on it. With an OpenVPN hosted network I have set it up for a client and they are running it for collaboration with remote workers
@@johnsfilmsllc thanks! We have worked out the inconsitencies in the connecting by sending the resovle key. Not sure why it is different as it seems more like an auto fill but works more often. We will look into the VPN. Cheers! Thanks for making these videos.
Thanks for the great setup info! You saved me a lot of work!
This setup works for me when I open the project from one computer. However, if I try to open the project from two computers, using collaboration mode, I get an error: "Please ensure that the machines are not connected using a VPN and that DaVinci Resolve is not being blocked by another system firewall." The problem is not specific to a particular computer - both computers can, separately - open the project. However, whichever computer tries to open the project when it's already open on the other computer gets the error.
The thought the problem might be because both computers are on the same home network so perhaps Postgres running on the AWS server isn't able to distinguish between the two of them, since they both have the same egress IP address. I tried to test this by connecting one of the computers to a VPN, so that both computers would have a separate egress addresses but it didn't help. If I use a DB on my local network, everything works fine.
Any ideas?
Interesting, thats a new message, when I built this I think it was Davinci Resolve 16? I know they updated the way the project server works due to Covid.
This information is golden. I wish there was official documentation on these things. Has there been any updates to this process since the release of 17?
I haven't tried it with 17. I'll see if it is substantial enough to warrant another video.
@@johnsfilmsllc did you check
@@BrodyNadeau Glad you poked, no not yet, got some sponsored content I’m focused on first…
@@BrodyNadeau it works!
That was super helpful. Thank you
Awesome - did you find a good use for it?
that's cool! whenever you want to do the TEXT video then we could maybe use that.
I do not live in an igloo! (in the summer)
Hahahahhahaha
Thanks for your work. Does it work on a mac?
The project server would integrate with Mac yes - Thanks for watching!
@@johnsfilmsllc thanks for your reply. sure you're right. but what I meant was can I use a Mac as virtual machine because I get stuck at the point when I try to open up the ".rdp" file on my Mac
@@THOMASTAYIMOEHL Download the Microsoft Remote Desktop from the Mac App Store
Love it!!
What the deal with postgreSQL is that part of the resolve install or is it a separate application needed on any system connecting?
It is an open source database the Resolve Project server uses to store data. The Project server uses it directly, editors don’t need to install Postgres themselves, just use the resolve UI to connect to the project server and you are good
@@johnsfilmsllc thanks for the clarification!
When working with Davinchi which EC2 instance type do you recommend using 'compute optimized'
or other?
I haven't run long term, instead did this as a proof of concept. The bandwidth on these machines was low, I'd suggest looking at that as the primary indicator of capability considering the editing is still done on your local machine.
Hi john , I think my future PC will include the AMD GPU and CPU 6800XT and 5900 Ryzen ..But I have to say the new Apple Silicon Arm new processor looks really attractive in term of performances. What do you think about it ???
I still haven't gotten to dive into the chips, I want to see some 3rd party benches to understand...it's going to be very hard to benchmark apples to apples going forward.
Hi John,
Thank you for your helpful video. I am wondering instead of opening port up to another user, would it be easier/ safer to work under a VPN network?
I have got everything working, except when two users trying to access the same project, one of them will be disconnected.
Many thanks,
Peter
Funny you mention it....I’m currently working to stand up a vpn in another you tubers studio for remote editing...and yep works way better...
@@johnsfilmsllc Hey John, my friends and I managed to set up a local database and shared over the internet through VPN without any port forwarding. And it's working really well!
@@peterliuproduction nice man, I would love to do the same, I need to set up a shared project with an assistant editor in another city, do you know where I can find a tuto to set it up with a VPN?
@@benwaraiotoko Hey Ben, you can find the VPN that we used here:www.zerotier.com/ it's fairly straightforward to set up, a very light weight software. It will require both PC to have the footage in the same file paths.
@@peterliuproduction thank you Peter, I’ll take a look asap
Hi john. Nice video. I am waiting for all the upgrades going on with Nvidia and AMD ( GPU and CPU) right now . So hopefully January should be a good time to get my new PC.And i will ask you for recommendation if its okay with you .. Budget of 2 or 3 K.
I’ll be doing a build of the month in November that will likely answer that need :)
You are now PC Build of the month in December...
@@johnsfilmsllc December or January for sure John. With 2 or 3 K , I should have something decent , right????
That’s going to be a killer system
Hey John do you think it is possible to use the Amazon cloud with some higher specs as a solution to edit your videos wiht resolve enitierly in the cloud like some people are already doing with shadow.tech? If it is possible maybe do a video about it with some benchmarkts. I think it is really interessitng for some people who don't want to spend too much for a decent workstation to know if this would be a possible alternative. :)
Can you do the same for Adobe suite, like photoshop and Adobe premiere???
Good idea. Let me see what I can figure out
@@johnsfilmsllc thanks, cant wait!!!
How long this virtual machine take to process 4k video rendering? Any rough idea plz
You can choose what you are willing to pay for on the amazon cloud relative to the hardware...the free tier I showed here would be PAINFULLY long to render...think 3 min video in 20-30 mins maybe? Just guessing but it would be BAD.
@@johnsfilmsllc Indeed it is too long. But if we go with paid and choose heavy machine then it would take around 3 min to render 3min Video... I guess🙄 (if its true then Davinci+AWS going to bang)
@@91coders Yes I think it can happen but at the same time, get a studio license and you can leverage the hardware encoder found on even 6 year old GPU's to create quickly) (assuming you don't have heavy fusion work :))
How is the actual editing process?
I’d suggest going with a paid host that has a fatter internet pipe for the frequent project updates that happen, that said I was surprised it even worked - maybe try the free one and see how it is?
This is great stuff and possible to replicate the setup. At this time, however, Blackmagic has presented an easier solution. Thanks for sharing this, either way!
Yep, I watched the release thinking...oh...well there goes that video :)
You need more views.
Thanks! I hope to get there one day :)
Would you remommend frame.io for file collaboration?
I haven't used it, though I have looked at it. I've talked about it with Billy Rybka (another resolve youtuber) quite a bit. He uses it with his production company to communicate with his editors and really likes it.
Hello, how can I do this with a group of Mac users and one PC user now. Thanks
The challenge you are going to run into (and probably did) is the location of the media files that are stored on the machine. You will argue back and forth, saving the settings over and over...Sadly I don't have a fix...
hey! we would need some help with this setup, wanting to basically be able to "rough cut" in studio A, and, "edit" in studio B, then, color correct in studio C all arround the planet, working on ONE project.
how can we get in touch?
thx!
Johndaughtridge@gmail.com
@@johnsfilmsllc got a mail error, adress not found, can u check? ;-)
@@tobistribe Odd - it’s correct - what email address should I ping you at?
Do you want to get into a discord call and plan out, how we will do the text/text+ video ?
I got my discord 2FA messed up and can’t get into it at this point. I did some searching and Text/Text+ isn’t going to be a good topic for a video as it doesn’t draw much search volume ;(
Hi ! A big thank's for this tuto.
I have a probleme when I try to modify the timeline. I have this message : "The project could not be loaded in collaboration mode as Resolve was unable to establish a connection to communicate with other users. Please ensure that the machines are not connected using a VPN and that Davinci Resolve is not being blocked by the system firewall."
I don't know what to do :/
Thats new - it used to work without direct connections to other users for basic project collab. The communication/chat features required a direct connection which was beyond the scope of the video. If you have the ability to setup a vpn and connect to it try that. i just set up another youtuber with his own film company and it works like a champ. Look at open vpn server (and some consumer routers even run it)
@@johnsfilmsllc Thank you for your answer. I'm not sure if I can do this because I'm really not good at networking. I will look for tutorials.
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Of course it's working but TOTALY UNSECURED !
If it can be used for testing purposes, I highly recommend to never use this configuration in a production environment.
Please consider to change PostgreSQL user name and password, avoid using a x.x.x.x/0 listening address and never open port 5432/tcp for ANY public address from Internet using the 0.0.0.0/0 source IP.
You can avoid this critical vulnerability by using a VPN between your computer and the server. Then in the firewall rules you only allows port 5432/tcp throw the VPN tunnel.
100% Agree. Resolve by default uses the same User/Pass for all hosted resolve configs as well...
Thanks for making this video. However, it’s all fun and games until your Internet goes out.
hah no doubt! It didn't cross my mind even once...wow great point
What happens if the internet goes out? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm new to this world.
@@johnsfilmsllc @Tanner Fugal if the internet goes down you could access the instance using your phones mobile data and export the project required? Then reimport the new work back into the original project when the internet returns. One could also run an automatic SQL backup program on the instance to constantly backup to an FTP? Does that tick enough boxes to make it safe?
not working with davinci 17
yep
I got it to work in 17 😉